At Close, the Sensex was down 175.58 points or 0.30% at 59,288.35, and the Nifty was down 73.10 points or 0.42% at 17,392.70, as indices extended losses for the seventh straight trading session owing to weakness in auto, IT and metal stocks. The top gainers on Nifty were ICICI Bank, Power Grid, Kotak Bank, HDFC Life, and State Bank of India (SBIN) while the top losers were Adani Enterprises, Bajaj Auto, UPL, Tata Steel, and Infosys. The broader indices ended with deeper losses. The BSE Midcap index was down 0.7 percent. The Smallcap index plunged 1.3 percent. Sectorally, the BSE IT index sank 2 percent. The Auto and Metal indices were down around 1.5 percent each. On the other hand, BSE Bankex surged a percent.